Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair in Infectious Diseases
Connect with Robert

Email: R.C.Read@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Chris Byrne

Professor of Endocrinol & Met
Connect with Chris

Email: C.D.Byrne@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Cyrus Cooper

Research interests
  • Key research contributions have been:
  • discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hi…
  • demonstration that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone miner…
Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Calder

Professor of Nutritional Immunology
Connect with Philip

Email: P.C.Calder@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ratko Djukanovic

Professor of Medicine
Research interests
  • Professor Djukanovic has a lifelong interest in asthma, especially its severe forms. where hi…
  • Underlying mechanisms of asthma: Professor Djukanovic has conducted pioneer studies into the …
  • Stratification of asthma into clinical phenotypes and mechanism-based endotypes: Professor Dj…
Connect with Ratko

Email: rd1@soton.ac.uk

Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean (KEE) & Professor of Epidemiology & Human Development
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Professor of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Connect with Hasan

Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Professor of Paediatric Allergy & Resp. Medicine
Connect with Graham

Email: g.c.roberts@soton.ac.uk

Professor Saul Faust MBBS, PhD, FRCPCH, FFPM(Hon), FHEA, OBE

Professor of Paediatric Immunity & Infection
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Old and new classes of glucose-lowering agents as treatments for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a narrative review
Lei Miao, Jing Xu, Giovanni Targher, Christopher Byrne & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2022, Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 28(4), 725-738
DOI: 10.3350/cmh.2022.0015
Type: review
Characteristics and impact of Long Covid: findings from an online survey
Nida Ziauddeen, Deepti Gurdasani, Margaret E. O'Hara, Claire Hastie, Paul Roderick, Guiqing Lily Yao & Nisreen Alwan, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(3 March)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264331
Type: article
Placental uptake and metabolism of 25(OH)vitamin D determine its activity within the fetoplacental unit
Brogan Ashley, Claire Simner, Antigoni Manousopoulou, Carl Jenkinson, Felicity Hey, Jennifer M. Frost, Faisal I Rezwan, Cory H White, Emma Lofthouse, Emily Hyde, Laura, Diana Frances Cooke, Sheila Barton, Pamela A Mahon, Elizabeth Curtis, Rebecca Moon, Sarah Crozier, Hazel Inskip, Keith Godfrey, John Holloway, Cyrus Cooper, Kerry S. Jones, Rohan Lewis, Martin Hewison, Spiros Garbis, Miguel R. Branco, Nicholas Harvey & Jane Cleal, 2022, eLife, 11
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71094
Type: article
Liver fat in adult survivors of severe acute malnutrition
Debbie S. Thompson, Tamika Y.N. Royal-Thomas, Ingrid A. Tennant, Deanne P. Soares, Christopher D. Byrne, Terrence E. Forrester, Peter D. Gluckman & Michael S. Boyne, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07749-5
Type: article
Utility of KI-67 as a prognostic biomarker in pulmonary neuroendocrine neoplasms: a systematic review and meta-analysis
2022, BMJ Open, 12(3), e041961
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041961
Type: article
Digital healthcare in COPD management: a narrative review on the advantages, pitfalls, and need for further research
Alastair Watson & Tom M.A. Wilkinson, 2022, Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 16
DOI: 10.1177/17534666221075493
Type: review
Modification of subcutaneous white adipose tissue inflammation by omega-3 fatty acids is limited in human obesity-a double blind, randomised clinical trial
Helena L. Fisk, Caroline E. Childs, Elizabeth A. Miles, Robert Ayres, Paul S. Noakes, Carolina Paras-Chavez, Ondrej Kuda, Jan Kopecký, Elie Antoun, Karen A. Lillycrop & Philip C. Calder, 2022, EBioMedicine, 77
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103909
Type: article